Saturday, August 27, 2016

Each minute of our life is a lesson
but most of us fail to read it. I thought I would just add my daily lessons
& the lessons that I learned by seeing the people around here. So it may be
useful for you and as memories for me…….

Today, when I am having coffee along
with my breakfast, A story called “Life Is Like A Cup Of
Coffee ” came into my mind, which I heard a long back when I am
in my college…

It is a wonderful narration of
a simple story that shares a great perspective of life and the way we live
it. This story is based on the way we see and lead the life. The story is
all about the conversation between Professor and his old students, who come to
meet him after many years of their college life.

Story starts like this….

” A
group of alumni, highly established in their careers, got together to visit
their old university professor. Conversation soon turned into complaints about
stress in work and life.

Offering his guests coffee, the
professor went to the kitchen and returned with a large pot of coffee and an
assortment of cups – porcelain, plastic, glass, crystal, some plain looking,
some expensive, some exquisite – telling them to help themselves to the coffee.

When all the students had a cup of
coffee in hand, the professor said: “If you noticed, all the nice looking
expensive cups have been taken up, leaving behind the plain and cheap ones.
While it is normal for you to want only the best for yourselves, that is the
source of your problems and stress.

Be assured that the cup itself adds
no quality to the coffee. In most cases it is just more expensive and in some
cases even hides what we drink.

What all of you really wanted was coffee, not
the cup, but you consciously went for the best cups… And then you began eyeing
each other’s cups.

Now consider this:

Life is the
coffee; the jobs, money and position in society are the cups.

They are just
tools to hold and contain Life, and the type of cup we have does not define,
nor change the quality of life we live.

Sometimes, by concentrating only on
the cup, we fail to enjoy the coffee. Savor the coffee, not the cups!

The happiest people don’t have the
best of everything. They just make the best of everything.

Live simply. Love
generously. Care deeply. Speak kindly.

This story provides a simple, yet
profound look at life that may shed light on how challenges being faced today
need to be addressed, and hopefully, resolved. Maybe, just maybe, it can be
looked at as the simple approach to tackle complex problems. And, I’ve asked
myself if it could really be instrumental in making people look at things
differently and provide hope, where hope was not even considered before.

Anyway, go through the story
and give this some thought. Then, please share it with your family and
friends and request they share it with people they know. If we can ultimately
help just one person, or just one family, we will have made progress. Progress
that’s necessary to survive this rough economic storm.